Measuring Power and Satisfaction in Societies with Opinion Leaders: An Axiomatization

Rene van den Brink (), Agnieszka Rusinowska and Frank Steffen

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: A well-known model in sociology and marketing is that of opinion leadership. Opinion leaders are actors who are able to affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise this power by influencing their followers choice of action. We study a two-action model for a society with opinion leaders. We assume that each member of the society has an inclination to choose one of these actions and that the collective choice is made by simple majority of the actions chosen by each member. For this model, we axiomatize satisfaction and power scores, which allow us to investigate the effects of different opinion leader-follower structures

Keywords: Collective choice; follower; opinion leader; power; satisfaction; axiomatization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2011-03
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